The process of buying a house was very smooth, because Li Yongji did not make a counteroffer, although it was a little strange to come to buy a house so late, but the shopkeeper of the Splendid Workshop was still happy to complete the instructions of the big boss so easily.

After all, he has been in the local area for many years, and he also knows that the place is actually not easy to sell, and now it is rare for a big man to be willing to take over, no matter what the reason, it would be stupid not to take the opportunity to sell it.

This is also because the house is not his, he is just a handler, and the conditions are also determined to die from above, if it is really his own, seeing this situation, he will definitely sit on the ground and raise the price.

However, although he could not sit on the ground and raise the price, he had the power to sell or not to sell, when to sell, and the room for maneuver at a certain price, and saw that the other party was in a hurry, so he asked for 550 taels to be written on the contract, and he actually paid 600 taels, which was equivalent to 50 taels from which he earned himself.

It seems that the fifty taels are the buffer set for him above, and now he is using it as a disposal fee.

Li Yongji didn't care about this, anyway, all he wanted was a quick word, and he didn't care if he got benefits from it.

After the contract was signed, the deed of Yangxinju and the title deed of the surrounding land were handed over to Li Yongji, and from then on, Li Yongji became the owner of Yangxinju.

However, after the transaction was completed, Sun Wang found a big problem!

That is, although the house of Yangxinju is written to cover an area of 20 acres, in fact, it is only the area occupied by the planned land for the house building, not the actual land area on the land deed.

At this time, the so-called buying a house, you must buy the deed and title deed together, otherwise there is only the deed without the title deed, there are many problems, generally only the house deed, mostly for rent, if it is to buy, then it must be bought together with the land.

And now on the title deed, what is written is not 20 acres at all, but 220 acres, a difference of 200 acres!

At first glance, there are 200 acres of land, which is a great thing, but since it is a good thing, why should the other party deliberately conceal it, and only write on the registration that the house covers an area of 20 acres, without mentioning the actual number of land deeds?

This involves the question of the value of this land, as well as a policy issue of the Qing Dynasty at this time.

Let's start with the value of land.

The two hundred and twenty acres of land, in fact, most of them are sloping woodlands and some sandy tidal flats, and basically not developed, it can be said to be a wasteland, although the scenery is good, but also by the river, but not suitable for farming at all, from the economic point of view at this time, it can be said that it is poor wasteland, even if such land is given to you two hundred acres, in terms of income, it may not be as good as one or two acres of good paddy fields.

Let's talk about policy.

At this time, the Qing Dynasty had a famous tax policy, that is, to apportionment into the mu. As the name implies, apportionment into the mu refers to the abolition of the poll tax, the poll tax into the field endowment, the increase of the field endowment, and only the collection of the field endowment, which is equivalent to objectively reducing the burden of the poor peasants, removing the poor people's dependence on the land, and transferring this part of the burden to the landlords.

In other words, the more land you have, the more taxes you pay.

This policy seems to be good for the poor, not good for the landlords and local government officials, after all, the landlords pay more taxes, and the government officials cannot collect more poll tax from the extra population, and there is a small tax loss, but any policy is a policy at the top, and there are countermeasures at the bottom, and the same is true for apportioning the land into the mu.

As far as the local government is concerned, they can use the policy of apportioning the land into the mu, and many taxes that have nothing to do with the land are also incorporated into the field tax, and they also have the final say on how much the land has to pay, and even some wasteland, they sometimes treat it as poor land or even fertile land to collect taxes, and many people have to abandon the land and flee the famine.

As far as the big landlords are concerned, they are powerful in the local area, and they can not only collude with the government to commit fraud, but also raise the land rent, pass on their own burdens to the tenant peasants, and they can also donate to the officials, and they can justifiably get free food in their official capacity, plus they often have other livelihoods, such as usury, so the apportionment of the land to the mu is not much of a threat to them.

Therefore, the apportionment of land to the mu did not deal a big blow to the big landlords and bureaucrats, but the biggest blow was still dealt to the small landlords and yeoman peasants, which was a typical policy of eating the middle class and making up for the lower class.

For those small landlords and yeoman farmers who have a small amount of land, because the burden of land is increased and they cannot pay taxes, they either sell their land to escape famine, or they rely on large households to send land and are willing to become tenant farmers.

Not to mention far away, let's take Li Yongji's family at that time as an example.

As mentioned earlier, Li Yongji's family has 500 acres of land, which seems to be a big landlord, but in fact, most of this land is willing to be attached to it, and the Li family only occupies a name, and it seems that they own a lot of land, but it just looks beautiful, in fact, the land is still planted by the people themselves, and the jurisdiction is also people's.

It's complicated to say that this matter is complicated, but to put it simply, it is equivalent to everyone working together to reduce the risk by taking what they need.

In the case of yeoman farmers, if they all pay their own land endowments, because they are all fixed to death, and the government only collects money, it is equivalent to exploiting it one more time, and if the harvest is not good and they cannot pay the taxes, then they will have to die themselves.

It's a good idea to be attached to other big families, but it's a credit issue. To put it simply, this big family has a good character, a good reputation, and can't have too strong forces, in case it's a bully, eat it and don't spit it out, because the land has become someone's in law, and the name of the person is written on the title deed, and the person doesn't admit it, and he can't fight again, then this matter can't be reasonable.

And Li Yongji's father, Li Zhengxiang, is a grain merchant and a merchant, and later donated a prisoner by spending money and has a tax-free status, but it is mainly for the convenience of business. For him, what he is most afraid of is the fluctuation of grain prices, and he will not be able to receive cheap grain, so having a stable supply of cheap grain is the top priority.

No matter how high the amount of silver Tian Fu wants, it is not much money for a grain merchant like Li Zhengxiang, and it can be afforded, after all, the Tian Fu of the Qing Dynasty actually fluctuates with the good or bad years, and it is not immutable.

In other words, Tian Fu is not a problem for Li Zhengxiang, but if there is a large amount of land that can grow food for himself and allow him to have a stable supply channel, then the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

In this way, the two hit it off, the yeoman farmer gave the land to Li Zhengxiang, and he became a tenant who farmed for Li Zhengxiang, a bit like the land circulation in later generations; As for Li Zhengxiang, he has more benefits, because he has increased the land under his name without spending much money, not to mention his own value, and there are many more stable food supply sources, which is beneficial to everyone.

Moreover, Li Zhengxiang seems to be going to hand over the land endowment, but he still has to collect this part of the land to the government from the tenants who sent the land to him, at most it is not so rigid.

On the surface, there is a land dependency relationship, but these tenants still need to pay the part of the land required by the government, and do not have to pay other rent, economically speaking, it is equivalent to tenants or self-cultivated farmers, but their status has changed, and they have a certain ability to resist risks.

Because in case you can't pay the tax, you can let Li Zhengxiang pay it in advance and pay it back when the harvest is good next year, but in this way, Li Zhengxiang has the final say on what to plant in the future, and the grain planted must also be sold to Li Zhengxiang, and the price is also Li Zhengxiang's final say, which is generally the lowest price in the market, and let the farmers go.

In this way, the risk of farmers is smaller, and Li Zhengxiang also has a stable supply source, which seems to be beneficial on the surface, but Li Zhengxiang has the most benefits.

The year is good, although the price of grain is low, but those tenants who depend on themselves can pay the land endowment of the government by themselves, and Li Zhengxiang, the nominal owner, only pays it on his behalf, and he does not lose money, and he still makes a small profit in the process of exchanging silver;

Although the tenants may not be able to pay the land and silver required by the government, because the price of grain is high, and the profit from selling grain is also high, then it is not a matter to pay taxes for the tenants first, and they can pay back to themselves in the coming year anyway, which is nothing more than no interest income, not to mention, if the year is bad, the high price of selling grain is much higher than the benefit of paying taxes.

This is the difference between a merchant who is engaged in trade and a peasant who is a producer; for grain merchants, no matter how good or bad the year is, they all make money and have a strong ability to resist risks, but the peasants' ability to resist risks is much worse.

What Li Zhengxiang needs is a large amount of cheap grain as a supply source to reduce the input of grain collection, while the peasants are to reduce risks, so they also take what they need.

On the contrary, although Li Zhengxiang has a strong ability to resist risks in business, he is not a large local clan, and he has few mouths, and in disguise, there is no too strong force here, so he can only obtain economic benefits, but cannot obtain actual sovereignty over land.

In this era, you don't have a certain amount of strength, you can't keep your land and property at all, even if Li Zhengxiang has so much land in his name, he can't really drive out those tenants who are too large or force them to pay rent for themselves.

For example, this is like some large rural villagers in later generations who occupy land privately, and when people come to demolish and relocate, it is clear that the farmers themselves occupy the land privately, but they just don't leave, and even violently resist the law.

Therefore, the Li family's 500 acres of land is good-looking, there is not much real power, and it does not make money by collecting rent at all, once there is a land dispute, even if there is a lawsuit, the government is clear about this kind of thing, in order to stabilize the place, nine times out of ten will not let the Li family win, even if it can win, it will lose, because it can't hold the land at all.

Having said that, Li Yongji's current situation is that he originally bought a house, but he had an extra 200 acres of land, even if it seems to be wasteland, he still has to pay the land endowment.

Once you buy the land and have the title deed, you will register it in the government, and this matter is generally handled by the tooth people for you, and you can't rely on it.

After registration, the government can not care how much income you can earn a year from the land you buy, they will collect the land according to the predetermined amount, although the amount of wasteland is a little smaller, but it is also a burden.

Before, the person who bought this land to raise his heart was just interested in the scenery and traffic there, he was not short of money at that time, he wanted to afford it himself, and then changed it to a garden landscape, who knew that he would lose it later, so he could only sell it.

However, it is precisely because of the drag of the two hundred acres of wasteland that it is actually not easy to sell, if it is just a simple house, even if the place is a little remote, but after all, it is not far from the town, and it is close to the waterway, and many of the houses in it are new, so the price is not bad, but if you add the burden of two hundred acres of wasteland, it is another matter.

The land of ordinary landlords can be planted with crops and output, and there are people who cultivate them, which can produce benefits, but the more than 200 acres of land that Li Yongji bought, even if there is a house, is actually still a wasteland where no one lives, and in order to develop and utilize it, it is necessary to invest more funds one after another. But at this time, the government, no matter whether you continue to invest or not, still have to ask you for taxes, and after a little pondering, you know that it is now the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the day of harvesting autumn fu, that is, collecting field fu, is about to come.

In short, Li Yongji bought these two hundred acres of land, and it would not take long for him to pay a field tax to the government first, and he would have to pay taxes for more than two hundred acres of land every year in the future.

Of course, this is not that Sun Wang deliberately helped the other party deceive Li Yongji, but it was actually concealed when the other party registered, and when registering, he only said the construction area of the house, not the actual area of the land where the house is located.

If it was replaced by the authentic tooth man Sun Gui, or Li Yongji was willing to spend a little more time and let Sun Wang learn more about it, he would definitely not be deceived so lightly.

Of course, you can't blame the family for this, after all, although they didn't register the fact that there are still 200 acres of land, the title deed will not be wrong, and the fault is that Li Yongji himself was careless and was too anxious when he bought it.

"The surname is Qi!" Feeling that he had been fooled, Sun Wang immediately grabbed the middle-aged shopkeeper, "You dare to yin me?" ”

"Hmph, why did you say it?" The middle-aged shopkeeper said unhurriedly, "I didn't deliberately hide it, and I didn't say that I wouldn't show it to you, but you didn't even see it and hurriedly came to me to buy it, why did it become my business?" ”

"You!"

"Now it's a deal." The middle-aged man smiled at the corner of his mouth, and took his contract to it, "Look clearly, the paperwork in black and white reads, not only the signature of my lord and the second son of the Li family, but also the signature of your lord Sun Gui, hum, if you don't admit it, Cheng, let's go to the yamen to fight a lawsuit, and see who is good-looking!" ”

"You, you!" Sun Wang is young in the end, and he hasn't fully woken up from the wine he drank before, so he only feels that his anger is surging, so he has to fight without saying a word.

"That's it!" Seeing that things seemed to be going bad, Li Yongji simply waved his hand, "Isn't it just two hundred acres of land, and I still earned it, so be it." Shopkeeper Qi, this is a silver ticket of 1,000 taels, you give me 400 taels, and we will get two taels of silver! ”

"Happy!" Hearing Li Yongji say this, and seeing Sun Wang let go, the shopkeeper surnamed Qi bowed his hand to Li Yongji and said the scene, "Li Gongzi, I have to admire you for your bearing." But to be honest, you didn't suffer a loss in this matter, the house is actually a lot of new houses, and a lot of money was spent at the beginning, if you are willing to continue to spend some thought, the house is definitely a good place to live. As for the land, in fact, it is not really barren, if you are willing to put in some effort, the future output will be indispensable, otherwise, our master would not have bought that piece of land in the first place. ”

"That's a good point." Sun Wang sneered on the side, "It's so good, why don't you keep it yourself?" ”

"Huh." Shopkeeper Qi didn't pay attention to Sun Wang at all, and continued to look at Li Yongji and said, "Master Li, no, you are now a person with land and a house, and I will have to call you Master Li in the future." ”

It is also the blessing of this era that there is no provision that minors are not allowed to buy and sell houses, so Li Yongji wrote his name at that time, instead of borrowing his father's name.

From the point of view of this era, Li Yongji has his own house and land, and he can already be called a master.

However, when Shopkeeper Qi says this now, there is clearly a sense of irony, or smugness.

"Master Li, you are a person who does big things, you must not be so short-sighted, or you wouldn't have come to me in such a hurry to buy it, right?"

"Don't say it's useless, hurry up and find money." Li Yongji said lightly.

"Ah, okay, I'll find you a silver ticket, you wait." After speaking, the shopkeeper Qi turned around and went back to the room to find money.

"Li, Master Li, I'm ...... about this" Seeing that the other party took Li Yongji's silver ticket and went back to exchange for the silver ticket, Sun Wang was a little embarrassed, and he also secretly admired that people were so small and so calm and atmospheric, even if they suffered such a big loss.

"Forget it, it's none of your business." Li Yongji smiled, "I don't blame you for this, I forced you here, and I bought it without seeing it clearly." However, in fact, for me, there is so much land, which is not a bad thing. Okay, let's not talk about it so much, I'll have to trouble you later. ”

In fact, the reason why Li Yongji can be so calm is entirely because of the different angles from which he looks at this matter. If it is simply from the perspective of occupying more land and paying more taxes itself, he seems to have suffered a loss, but if from the perspective of Li Yongji's development, more land is actually a good thing, and it is more convenient for him to do things.

Despite this, Li Yongji was vigilant again in his heart, and kept reminding himself not to underestimate the people of this era, after all, no matter what he said this time, he was also fooled, even if he was actually happy to be on it.

That is, these two things made Li Yongji truly understand that the ancients were not stupid at all, and they were definitely not gentle and humble gentlemen, they were always playing their own tricks, always trying to make you cheap, and if you were not careful, you would be fooled, no wonder foreigners in this era said that the Chinese were cunning.

In fact, if Li Yongji handed over this matter to his cheap father, he would definitely not suffer these small losses, but the problem is that he can't wait for Li Zhengxiang's cheap father to come back before doing it, so the initiative will not be in his hands, and it will add a lot of constraints.

To put it bluntly, as a traverser, Li Yongji doesn't have much affection for his parents in this life, he doesn't want to play any family plot hypocritically, nor does he want to spend more words to explain anything, plus because he can predict some of the future after the crossing, he always has a sense of anxiety and insecurity, which forces him to try his best to open up a world with his own ability, which is why he is in a hurry to do these things.